Police: Arizona escapees may be in Yellowstone area

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Authorities believe two Arizona prison escapees and their alleged accomplice may be in the Yellowstone National Park area of Montana and Wyoming, based on recent information, the U.S. Marshals Service said Sunday.

John Charles McCluskey, 45, and Tracy Province, 42, are described as armed and dangerous. They have been at large since fleeing an Arizona prison on July 30. A third escaped inmate, Daniel Renwick, 35, was arrested the day after the escape in Rifle, Colorado, where he got in a shootout with police.

David Gonzales, the U.S. marshal for Arizona, told CNN that the remaining fugitives are now suspected in the killings of a couple whose bodies were found Wednesday in New Mexico.

"There was evidence that ties them, our suspects, who escaped from prison, directly to their murders," Gonzales told CNN
Gonzales said the fugitives have frequented truck stops and campgrounds. He said McCluskey and Province have "white supremacist leanings" and could be looking for "people who are sympathetic to their cause."

Yellowstone sits at the northwest corner of Wyoming and extends a short distance into Montana and Idaho, both states where white supremacist groups have attempted to take root. Thomas Henman, a spokesman for the Marshals Service, said Arizona prison officials have said the convicts belong to the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, but there was no concrete information to tie them to white supremacist groups outside prison.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/08/arizona.prison.escapees/index.html

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Wow. Two racist white guys break outta medium security prison and end up killing two more people than they already did. Maybe Arizona needs to reform its prisons rather than hunt for Hispanics. Y'see, citizens and non-citizens commit crimes!

I visited Yellowstone in July 2008. Glad I'm not there when two escapees convicted of murder could be anywhere there!

[Warpy]

1. Maybe they'll do the world a favor

and fall into one of those pools of boiling mud or feed a hungry grizzly or something.

Arizona's got worse problems than poor Mexican immigrants trying to make a living.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Jan Brewer can't keep prisons secure, let alone worrying about borders

aronic, isn't it?

[Cant trust em]

3. Just great. I'll be in Yellowstone on Tuesday. nt

[Jennicut]

4. Oh, who cares about crazy white supremacist escaped prisoners when Arizona has the

horrible Mexicans to worry about! That is sarcastic, of course.

[Ex Lurker]

8. The AB is a prison gang that happens to be white

they use a lot of white supremacist rhetoric, but one of the founders was Jewish and on the inside they freely do business with the Mexican Mafia. The ideological white supremacy groups have disowned them for the most part. That's not to say these guys don't mate blacks and other ethnic groups, they probably do. But it's secondary to their primary activities: slinging dope and running other rackets in prisons.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. With luck, the bears will eat the armed crazies.

[AnnieBW]

6. Support your right to arm bears!

Maybe the bears will take care of them? Or, maybe Gov. Brewer is hoping that the serial killers who belong to the Aryan Brotherhood will take out some "illegals" while they're at it?

[DesertFlower]

7. they arrested one guy's mother.

apparently she helped them get a car and gave them money.

[CanonRay]

9. It was a Private Prison they broke out of

just wanted to point that out. Is the company liable for the wrongful death of the people in New Mexico?

[senseandsensibility]

11. Bingo

That is a major point in this story. It should be in the headline, as it was in an AOL (of all places) story that was featured this week-end. The word private, right in the headline! Of course no one else is talking about that.

[jberryhill]

10. Damn... A week late for the bear attacks

You'd think Arizona would be interested in protecting the border between the inside and outside of their prison, though.

[PavePusher]

12. Gosh, who'd need to be equiped for self-defense in a National Park?

Didn't everyone against legally carried firearms in Parks say that they were safe places?

Who wants to do a field trip?!

[Old Troop]

13. Wouldn't it be ironic if one of the "rogue" grizzlys got them?